Thursday, October 22, 2009

I figure that before I start posting my current work I should take care of some of the backlogged images on my hard drive. Around the end of the summer I did some work for Villin Cycle Works, Inc. back in Gainesville, Fla. The guys at Villin go to great pains to craft custom, handmade bicycles from raw materials. The amount of precision and detail that go into these bikes can mean over 80 hours of labor per bike. I tried to spend a good number of those hours hanging out at the shop shooting the welding, painting and filing. These images are a selection of the images that I handed over to Villin for their Web site. The photos are all cropped to fit into a stretched horizontal slot on the site. I shot a good number of images for myself while I was at the shop, but I haven't had a chance to work through those yet. So, here are some of my favorite super horizontals. There are a few more shots on the Villin site at: www.villincycleworks.com.

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Since my last post I've started a new job and moved a little further to the south east. I'm now a staff shooter for Vero Beach 32963 and it's sister publication Veronews.com. The new job has kept me very busy, but that also means that I've been shooting a lot of photos. I'm going to start posting again now that I've begun to settle in here in Vero Beach. For now, I'll just put up this one shot from the other morning. After waking up to shoot an assignment at 5:45 a.m. (before sunrise) I decided to make use of my situation (being awake too early). Since I live across the street from the beach I wandered down to the water's edge with my camera where I stumbled across this guy. Nothing like some sunrise fishing. More to come soon.

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Tom McCarthy Jr. is a freelance photojournalist currently based out of Baltimore, Md. A graduate of the photojournalism program at the University of Florida, he strives to capture the beauty, pain and excitement around him to share with those who might otherwise miss it. He is available to shoot worldwide.
www.tommccarthyjr.com